I believe it’s the latter. Watch what he’s doing with the other dealings/devolvings around the statehouse. He’s a smiling, tight-jeaned wuff in disguise. (Does the story Little Red Riding Hood come to mind?)

By my account, he wants to be the first to shoot his own kind.

I don’t think so. Of course, I was thinking for green onions rather than the “dry” bulb types. Of course, they’re not really dry, except for that thin outer paper-type layer. And if you leave one in your refrigerator too long, the green will grow again, so it obviously wasn’t clear dead.

Carrots, radishes, lettuce etc. are harvested while they’re definitely still alive and growing.

I don’t think shooting them would do much good, so we just eat ’em alive (ugh, cruel us); at least we kill most of the animals we eat before we eat them — though I don’t think dropping live lobsters into boiling water is very nice (I bet they don’t either).

But face it; we’re predators and prey, as are many species.

And Robert, yep, wolves get hungry enough, they’ll eat ‘most anything, even people. Wouldn’t you?

Besides, if I had to be in Fairbanks in a hard winter, I think I’d rather be eaten by a wolf!

If any of you see wolfman Butch, please tell him I want to know if he eats everything he kills, or just enjoys destroying life. Thanks. — gp

The wolf population will have to be controlled in order to maintain the ungulate populations, unless of course everyone moves into high rise condos downtown and gives the valleys and foothills back to the deer and elk for wintering. There is about as much a chance of that happening as there is of the wolves being eradicated again.

IDFG needs to sell tags and let hunters control the populations in order to make money to continue supporting the wolves. Hunters in this state are very eager to get a chance to hunt wolves and they will sell a lot of tags. This does not mean a lot of wolves will be killed. I am an avid hunter and spent over 20 days in the woods hunting this last year and never seen a wolf close enough to kill.

I seen lots of tracks, but these animals are smart and once they start getting hunted they will become even smarter.

Personally I don’t think that they should have reintroduced them in the first place, but that is a completely different argument now that we have them.

I spent 3.5 years up in Alaska. One winter was spent in Fairbanks. Don’t quite remember just which year it was 1972 or 73. It was one of those years with very deep snow and the temp’s were in the -40s. The wolve’s being very hungry were coming into town eating what ever they could find mostly the local dogs that were let out in the mornings to do there duty. Everyone was afraid to let the kids out of the house for almost a month. Driving to work in the mornings you would spot them lurking in the tree lines looking for that easy meal.

That spring there were very few dogs left and not the usual Moose roaming around. Got to admit it was nice not hearing all the dogs barking and dog poop all over the place.

My understanding is wolves would be considered predators such as coyotes,cougars and under different rules already in place.

By the way, onions are already dead when the taking occurs.